TV & VIDEO - Feb. 5, 1988

CBS News responded to to the city of Denver--miffed over a less than complimentary post-Super Bowl report--Wednesday night with a broadcast “apology” from its Denver correspondent, Bob McNamara. McNamara had upset Denver officials and residents Monday by calling Denver “a town that’s never been No. 1 in anything but carbon monoxide levels.” Wednesday night McNamara corrected that misapprehension by listing the city’s No. 1s: the world’s biggest laundromat, the world’s longest street (Colfax Avenue) and a civic monument to the world’s first cheeseburger. “To be honest with you, it was not my idea,” McNamara said after Wednesday’s program. “I was hoping this thing would go to bed.”